The eighth and final issue of the Ahsoka comic adaption covers the entirety of the season’s final episode, as you’d expect.
The issue is a very competent retelling of “The Jedi, The Witch and The Warlord”‘s story, and there’s not really much more to say about it on that front. As ever, the comic doesn’t offer any extra insight into the events of the episode and there’s no extra content, which is usually the case with these adaptions.
If you somehow missed the Disney Plus series and are reading the story for the first time, then all the story beats are well laid out and easy to follow. There are times when certain dramatic beats are lost — the moment that Morgan is given the Blade of Talzin gets glossed over and Sabine’s big Force push lacks the dramatic weight that it had in the show without Natasha Liu Bordizzo’s performance and epic music — but otherwise the story is well told.
Unfortunately, the big letdown here is the art. While Peridea’s bland environments and skybox arguably fit a comic better than they did on the show, the issue is wildly inconsistent when it comes to detailed drawings of faces. It’s noticeable early on as Thrawn looks deformed in some panels and Morgan looks like a completely different person at times. Ezra looks completely different at times, with his hair and clothes the only recognizable traits in the worse depictions.
When the artwork in panels depicts a wider shot to capture multiple characters at once, the faces start to lack any detail at all, which of course is quite common in comics but in this case, it feels like it exacerbates the problem. The fight scenes fare a little better, with plenty of panels portraying certain set pieces and actions — the comic does a good job at showing just how creepy the zombified night troopers are — although it does miss the great hero shot of Ahsoka, Ezra and Sabine all standing next to each other with their lightsabers in front of the night troopers.
Ultimately, this comic adaption of Ahsoka episode eight is absolutely fine but it runs into most of the same issues faced by these other Star Wars comic adaptions. The original show is the superior version of this story, but sometimes a comic has its own strengths that allow it to depict certain visual elements differently than the original. Unfortunately, this issue was unable to do that.
Rating: 5/10
Josh is a huge Star Wars fan, who has spent far too much time wondering if any Star Wars character could defeat Thanos with all the Infinity Stones.
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